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Paint Your Wagon--the musical at the Shubert is all about California after the gold rush...
...perhaps ECA's biggest impact on Turkey has been its road-building program. Turkey is a big country, cut apart by rugged mountain ranges and vast areas of distant plateau. Counting everything which wasn't simply a wagon track, ECA found barely 13,000 miles of roads, only 5,000 miles of them good enough for a truck. In the event of a Soviet attack on Turkey, the eastern Mediterranean port of Iskenderun (Alexandretta) would be vital; 360 miles northeast of it is Erzurum, headquarters of the Third Army which controls the Soviet-Turkish frontier. Yet there...
...bowing favored guests to ringside tables and stashing the rest behind potted palms, the Chinese showed as much talent as the maître d'hôtel of any decadent capitalist nightclub. Guests were divided into five classes. Class A got Peking's luxurious Hotel Wagon-Lits. Class B was put up in spacious villas such as the outlying Sapphire Bright Farmstead, once the home of a rich family. Classes C, D and E were bedded down in second-rate hotels, third-rate hotels and boarding houses...
Paint Your Wagon is a fetching musical about post-Gold Rush life in California. James Barton stars in Alan Lerner's earthy saga at the Shubert. Matinee today, evenings...
Written by Alan Jay Lerner, "Paint Your Wagon" is the story of post-Gold Rush California, of the ever-hopeful men that wandered the hills in search of one good strike. It is the story of an old speculator, Ben Rumson, and his daughter, and a mining camp...